choler

Betekenis (Engels)

  1. (uncountable, usually) Anger or irritability.
  2. (historical, uncountable, usually) Synonym of yellow bile.

Etimologie (Engels)

In summary

From Middle English coler (“yellow bile”), from Old French colere (“bile, anger”), from Latin cholera (“bilious disease”), from Ancient Greek χολή (kholḗ, “bile”). Doublet of cholera.

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